URBAN Events at 2014 ASA Annual Meeting

URBAN’s Sociology node has planned a series of activities to advance collaborative, community-based research at the upcoming American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco.  Please join us!  Information about the scheduled sessions is listed below.  Click here to access the downloadable flier.

Organizational meeting

Saturday, August 16^th 6:30-7:30pm  – Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Fourth Floor, 19-20

Please join colleagues for a discussion of how to promote and support community-based research among sociologists. This will be a chance to meet and connect with like-minded colleagues and plan concrete activities that the ASA URBAN node can do in the coming year.

Community Based Research: A Key to the Equitable Development of US Cities (A Section on Community and Urban Sociology Invited Session)

Tuesday, August 19^th 8:30-10:10am – Hilton San Francisco Lobby Level, Golden Gate 8

This session will bring together academic researchers and their community partners who are engaged in collaborative research efforts in the San Francisco Bay area. One team will examine domestic violence and the other will explore mental health issues in the American Indian community. Members of the Sociology Planning Group of URBAN will discuss these particular partnerships and other objectives and initiatives of the network.

Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Roundtables

Saturday, August 16^th 10:30-11:30am – Hilton San Francisco Ballroom Level, Imperial B

Please attend one of four roundtables we have organized with the section to bring sociologists together around issue areas for facilitated conversation about ongoing and potential collaborative research. Topic and table organizer:

• DREAMers Undocumented Immigrant Students as Community Partners in Research, Thomas Pineros Shields, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Lowell
• Community Food Security, Nutrition, and Urban/Suburban Agriculture, Sarah Gatson, Texas A&M
• Organizing for Educational Change Inside and Outside of Schools, John Diamond, University of Wisconsin, Madison and Mark R. Warren, University of Massachusetts, Boston
• Publishing Community-Based Research, Charlotte Ryan, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Note: The above are NOT paper presentation roundtables. They are spaces to discuss ongoing research and possibilities for supporting collaborative research going forward. Join the URBAN roundtables for updates and to help develop future sessions and other resources such as guidelines for collaborative research.

Other Sessions of Interest

Developing Doctoral Students as Community-Engaged Scholars

Sunday, August 17th 8:30-10:10am – Parc 55 Wyndham San Francisco, Level Four, Balboa 

191. Regular Session: Public Sociology.  “Developing Doctoral Students as Community-Engaged Scholars”—Mark R. Warren, UMass-Boston 

ASA URBAN Planning Team:

Mark R. Warren, University of Massachusetts Boston & Jose Calderon, Pitzer College, Co-chairs

John Diamond, University of Wisconsin Madison

Eric Tesdahl, Vanderbilt University

Gregory Squires, George Washington University

Greg Maney, Hofstra University

Tom Pineros Shields, University of Massachusetts Lowell

William Holt, Birmingham-Southern College

William Gamson, Boston College

Charlotte Ryan, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Sarah Gatson, Texas A&M University

Megan Madison, Brandeis University

Sancha Medwinter, Duke University

Patricia Herzog, Rice University

To sign up for the ASA URBAN email list: please email: urban_ASA@lists.brandeis.edu